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Where do you get your energy from then? Are you just eating masses of fat and protein?

crazygringo 14y ago
That's usually the case. Colloquially known as the paleo diet. The same as our ancestors did for tens of thousands of years. Remember, dense carbohydrates like wheat and carb-rich potatoes are a very recent phenomenon in human history.
- nrlucas 14y ago
  Anatomical modernity of humans is about 200,000 years, flour processing is around 30,000 years. Sorry, I fail to see that as being recent.
  - crazygringo 14y ago
    I'm curious, where are you getting 30,000 years from? From what I know, any kind of significant flour processing arose together with the agricultural revolution, which produces large quantities of wheat for the first time. The agricultural revolution started around 12,000 years ago (but then still had to spread), and Wikipedia mentions: "It was discovered around 6000 BC that wheat seeds could be crushed between simple millstones to make flour." In widespread evolutionary terms, we've only been generally been eating flour for a few thousand years. Homo sapiens has been around for 200k years, but that is just the tip of the iceberg of the much longer evolutionary process that led to us. We and our ancestors have been eating meats, fats, fruits and vegetables for millions of years. So our high-carbohydrate flour-eating diet is certainly a sudden and recent disruption of our diet, and it is reasonable to expect that there's no way that, in just 100-200 human generations, the gene makeup of homo sapiens could so quickly adapt in a healthy way to such a drastically different diet.
    - nrlucas 14y ago
      http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/10/08/1006993107.abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/10/08/1006993107.abst... But in widespread use probably quite a bit less.
apaprocki 14y ago
Yes, e.g. breakfast: 3 fried eggs, 2 links of sausage (or bacon) plus a load of vegetables. Snacks are things like a small handful of nuts, berries, avocado, 4% one-serving packs of cottage cheese, etc. Lots of steaks, chicken, turkey and lots of vegetables. To me, it's a great diet because you eat a lot of great tasting food!

That's usually the case. Colloquially known as the paleo diet. The same as our ancestors did for tens of thousands of years. Remember, dense carbohydrates like wheat and carb-rich potatoes are a very recent phenomenon in human history.

nrlucas 14y ago
Anatomical modernity of humans is about 200,000 years, flour processing is around 30,000 years. Sorry, I fail to see that as being recent.
- crazygringo 14y ago
  I'm curious, where are you getting 30,000 years from? From what I know, any kind of significant flour processing arose together with the agricultural revolution, which produces large quantities of wheat for the first time. The agricultural revolution started around 12,000 years ago (but then still had to spread), and Wikipedia mentions: "It was discovered around 6000 BC that wheat seeds could be crushed between simple millstones to make flour." In widespread evolutionary terms, we've only been generally been eating flour for a few thousand years. Homo sapiens has been around for 200k years, but that is just the tip of the iceberg of the much longer evolutionary process that led to us. We and our ancestors have been eating meats, fats, fruits and vegetables for millions of years. So our high-carbohydrate flour-eating diet is certainly a sudden and recent disruption of our diet, and it is reasonable to expect that there's no way that, in just 100-200 human generations, the gene makeup of homo sapiens could so quickly adapt in a healthy way to such a drastically different diet.
  - nrlucas 14y ago
    http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/10/08/1006993107.abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/10/08/1006993107.abst... But in widespread use probably quite a bit less.

apaprocki 14y ago

Yes, e.g. breakfast: 3 fried eggs, 2 links of sausage (or bacon) plus a load of vegetables. Snacks are things like a small handful of nuts, berries, avocado, 4% one-serving packs of cottage cheese, etc. Lots of steaks, chicken, turkey and lots of vegetables. To me, it's a great diet because you eat a lot of great tasting food!